Visit of Yang Jiechi, Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Javier Solana, Secretary General of the Council of the EU and High Representative for CFSP, and extracts from the joint press briefing

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Javier Solana, Secretary General of the Council of the EU and High Representative for CFSP, held a meeting and a working lunch with Yang Jiechi, Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs, on 11 June 2008 in Brussels, to review the state of the EU/China relations and to discuss other issues related to the international and regional agenda.
During their joint press conference at the end of the meeting, they both underlined the good moment of the bilateral relations and hoped a deeper relationship between the European Union and China, even if Yang Jiechi remembered the importance of equality and non interference. On the Iranian nuclear programme, they both insisted on the need of finding a diplomatic solution.SHOTLIST